>I'll have to assume that most cops in the US must be friendly and considerate Its not just the attitudes of individual cops. Its the authoritarian dispositio

>I'll have to assume that most cops in the US must be friendly and considerate Its not just the attitudes of individual cops. Its the authoritarian disposition of legal authorities on every level, local, state and federal. The goal of the authorities in the United States is not public welfare and safety, its the imposition of order. Offensive, abusive behavior by police towards citizens is common, for which police face no sanction. Prosecutors regularly withhold evidence, suborn perjury (so much so that a term for rampant police perjury has been coined: 'testilying'), and break the law in a variety of ways, none of which is ever punished. The only people in the United States who "trust" the police (or the authorities in general) are those who are lucky enough to be blissfully ignorant (something that quickly changes once they are on the wrong end of a police interaction). All this isn't to say there aren't "good" cops, who sincerely want to better society and help people out, but the system itself is rotten to the core.